Greg W. Richey,
MS, CIH, CSP, AIHA Fellow

Principal Emeritus and Senior Consultant

Greg Richey serves as a Senior Consultant in the Philadelphia area office and has over 40 years of experience from a regulator’s, manufacturer’s, and consultant’s perspectives. A founder of Colden, he serves as co-chair of the firm’s litigation support practice. As an expert in occupational exposure assessment, Greg has conducted thousands of industrial hygiene and safety audits along with quantitative hygiene assessments. Notably, he possesses extensive expertise in the oil and chemical sectors, heavy manufacturing (e.g., steel, foundries, automotive), and general indoor environmental quality. He has served on the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Indoor Environmental Quality Committee, the Training and Communications Committee, and is currently an active member of the Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee.

He earned a Master of Science in Industrial Hygiene from Temple University and a Bachelor of Science in Fuel Science from Pennsylvania State University. He maintains certification in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene (CIH) with a subspecialty in indoor environmental quality. In addition to being a Certified Industrial Hygienist, he is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP). In 2012, he was honored with the title of Fellow by the AIHA.

Greg started his career working for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources and began working for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1977. He rose through the ranks in OSHA to serve as the Philadelphia Area Supervisor. After a 5-year stint with OSHA, he moved to Standard Oil Company (Amoco), and subsequently into health and safety consulting, as Industrial Hygiene Manager for Galson Consulting before starting his own firm, Colden Corporation, with two co-founders.

Some noteworthy consulting projects include serving on an OSHA compiled team of private consultants to conduct health and safety inspections at ten national laboratories within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.  Greg provided litigation support to a medical device manufacturer in defense of wording contained in safety data sheets and has served on a team of legal and safety experts advising a major automobile manufacturer experiencing an unusual number of workplace injuries.   Greg also served on a Colden team investigating cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in a large machine shop that uses metalworking fluids.

In his spare time Greg enjoys cycling, skiing and travel.